Well, it had to happen eventually. I'm pleased to report that I have a working Perl tarball for PA-RISC Linux, which means that the dpkg-dev programs and other random Debian bits that are written in Perl are now functional, which means that we can build Debian packages!
The toolchain and shared C libraries: ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/userspace/gcc-20000914.tgz ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/userspace/binutils-20000914.tgz ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/userspace/glibc-20000914.tgz Make sure to remove any existing /usr/hppa-linux directory before untarring the binutils, or you will get "cannot find crt1.o" from when linking. Perl (and gdbm, which it requires): ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/userspace/perl-20000914.tgz ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/userspace/gdbm-20000915.tgz You will need to run 'ln perl5.00503 perl5.005; ln perl5.00503 perl-5.005' after untarring that to satisfy some scripts. dpkg: http://puffin.external.hp.com/~dhd/debian-hppa/dpkg-1.7.0_hppa.nondebbin.tar.gz You'll have to touch /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/status for dpkg to work. It of course goes without saying that to have a useful development environment you need to have a bunch of other stuff, like shellutils, textutils, ncurses, ash, etc, etc, etc. We'll be putting together a new base system tarball shortly. Until then you're on your own :( Pending a proper Debian archive on p.e.h.c, I've started collecting packages at http://puffin.external.hp.com/~dhd/debian-hppa/. If they don't install then use dpkg --force-deps. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
